SHUT-DOWN CORNERBACK: Three weeks after he left the field devastated by a torn ACL (above), the Jets’ Darrelle Revis announced yesterday he will have surgery today to repair the injury. Photo: Anthony J. Causi

Darrelle Revis (Jeff Zelevansky)

SHUT-DOWN CORNERBACK: Three weeks after he left the field devastated by a torn ACL (left), the Jets’ Darrelle Revis announced yesterday he will have surgery today to repair the injury. (
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Darrelle Revis has gone from shutdown corner to just shut down. But the Jets’ all-pro cornerback is confident he will recover fully from his season-ending knee injury and continue to be one of the best defensive players in football.

Revis is scheduled to have surgery this morning in New York to repair a torn ACL in his left knee, an injury he suffered three weeks ago in a win over the Dolphins. Revis said the doctors told him he should be able to jog again in 12-16 weeks. When he returns to a football field, Revis believes he will be his old self.

“Once I get back to 100 percent,” Revis said yesterday, “to me, there’s no question I [will] be back to where I was.”

Yesterday was the first time Revis spoke to the media since suffering the injury on Sept. 23. He said he knew something was seriously wrong with his knee as soon as he fell to the ground. He had not been hit when the knee buckled.

“It felt like somebody had a knife and just cut through my knee,” Revis said. “That’s the feeling I got trying to make that cut. It’s crazy because I’ve made that cut a thousand … a million times. Even looking at the replay, it didn’t look like much. I guess it was meant to happen at that time.”

The doctors soon told Revis he was done for the season and he said he has gone through ups and downs emotionally since then. He plunged himself into researching the injury, speaking with several other players who have had an ACL tear, including Vikings running back Adrian Peterson and former Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb.

The 27-year-old also interviewed several doctors before deciding on Dr. Russell Warren, the Giants team physician, at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Revis will have a patellar tendon graft to fix the knee.

Revis will be entering the final year of his much-discussed contract next season. The expectation before the injury was the Jets would renegotiate before the season and extend his deal to avoid him becoming a free agent in 2014. Revis said the Jets “probably” will want him to prove he’s his old self next year before signing him to a new deal.

Revis has a film crew following him in recovery for a documentary. The normal recovery time for an ACL tear is 6-9 months, meaning Revis probably will not be ready to resume football activities until training camp next year.

“I never had an injury like this, so this is all new for me as well,” Revis said. “But yeah, I’m a hard worker. I know I’m going to work my butt off and get back to where I need to be.”